Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Subaru Corporation

Tadashi Itoh

Shinya Kamimura

Sachiko Yoshida

Tatsunari Imazato

Tomoaki Mizusaki

Yu Koganemaru

A vehicle body includes a rear pillar, a roof siderail, and a side inner panel. The rear pillar is disposed to a side of a rear hatch, and extends in an up-down direction. The roof siderail extends in a vehicle body front-rear direction at a side of a roof, and a rear end thereof is linked to the rear pillar. The side inner panel is linked to the rear pillar and the roof siderail. The roof siderail has a tubular shape, and bulges further into a vehicle cabin than an upper end of the side inner panel.

Vehicle body

A vehicle may include: a roof; a back door; a pillar provided next to the back door, having a tubular shape, and extending slantingly downward and backward from the roof; a vertical member provided below the pillar, extending along a vertical direction, and connected to the pillar from below; and a reinforcing member provided inside the pillar at a connection between the pillar and the vertical member and joined to the pillar.

Vehicle

A vehicle body may include a rear opening; a rear header extending in a width direction of the vehicle body along an upper edge of the rear opening; a rear pillar extending from an end of the rear header along a side edge of the rear opening; a rear wheelhouse located below the rear pillar; and a rear suspension tower disposed at the rear wheelhouse, wherein a rear suspension is mounted on the rear suspension tower. The rear pillar may include a first portion extending rearward from the end of the rear header; and a second portion bending at a rear end of the first portion and extending downward therefrom. The vehicle body may further include a first frame connecting the rear suspension tower to the rear header; and a second frame connecting a halfway point of the first portion of the rear pillar to the rear wheelhouse.

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Toyota, Japan

Tadashi Itoh